@helenawadia
🎥 multimedia news journalist 🎙 podcaster @mediastormpod.bsky.social - promoting media literacy and platforming the voices missing from the mainstream ✍🏽 columnist @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎧 sometimes music journo
have a column on this in the next issue of the New World - between stuff like below and people turning up to eg non-existent fireworks or Christmas markets, I wonder if AI companies won't regret releasing their products too soon: people can be lazy and/or forgiving but they don't like feeling dumb!
Elon Musk has proudly built an AI that can be exploited for what is basically child pornography.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for the execution of his political opponents.
And people are… ok with this?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
so many men in the series this year who would block your promotion at work then tell you to smile more round the office #thetraitors
Hugo is so The Rest is Politics-coded #thetraitors
Not saying there's unconscious racial bias in this country but...
#TheTraitors
well, we know why you got on the show #TheTraitors
The week we saw an explosive & important report from the @nytimes.com on the US anti-abortion movement's aims for the UK, I spoke to @mediastormpod.bsky.social about my long-term research into the anti-abortion movement, its funding, networks & ideology
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🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️
What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?
Funding, for one thing. Political frontmen, for another. The question is why?
🗣️ With the excellent @sianushka.bsky.social
🎙️ Hosted by @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
🔴‘The Media Lets Misogyny Thrive – It’s Their Job To Call It Out’
The media must not allow Reform UK to push the narrative that immigrants are putting women and girls in danger, argues @helenawadia.bsky.social
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You saw the headline - but will you see the correction?
When false headlines like this one from The Telegraph get printed on national front pages, the damage is done.
A tiny printed correction won’t change that. To hold the media truly accountable, corrections should be as big as headlines.
68% of those arrested at the Farage Riots last summer had previously been reported for domestic abuse. You know, the ones claiming their violence was a response to concerns about the safety of British women and girls.
On today’s News Watch:
👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge
🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social
LISTEN ⤵️
Almost as if its a cynical ploy to obtain the legal precedents necessary to expel trans people from public life perpetrated by the same people who overturned Roe v. Wade
Ohhh congratulations 🥂
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Ever heard of a war reporter? You could probably even name a few… perhaps you’ve even seen them played on the big screen by Hollywood stars.
Now tell us - ever heard of a fixer?
If you haven’t, you need to listen to this ⬇️
🎙️ War Reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
News Watch:
👉 Diddy’s domestic abuse ignored
👉 Welfare ‘U-turns’ and disability blaming
👉 Gaza aid traps
LISTEN NOW!
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We’re pleased to see more women speaking out in support of the trans community.
🙏🏻 Thank you @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social for writing about this in @bylinetimes.bsky.social and for mentioning our letter: change.org/NION_women
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This headline FUCKS
Thank you to @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social for this article. Bylines seems to be one of the few outlets noticing how stupid the whole "clarity" thing has turned out to be
The Times headline: After a terrible anniversary week, is Keir Starmer finished? While Nigel Farage sipped champagne at the Spectator's summer party, one cabinet minister said the prime minister's reign 'feels like it's done'
it honestly feels like there’s a section of the media which just wants an endless Westminster soap opera, while salivating over Farage’s every word without ever holding him to the same standard as others, rather than anyone fixing anything ever
What I know, what Katy knows, just as you know: most cis women support trans women. But hearing your beautiful embrace of the community gives such hope, at a time when all we hear elsewhere is hate; this is why I had to say thank you for the pod. It lifted me up. 💕💕💕
They choose their words wisely - this 'question' is indeed one that only concerns media and politicians. I don't believe anyone has ever asked it in good faith
I’ve only just discovered your pod. OMG, Helena and Matilda, how you go about this topic, what a breath of fresh air!! Thank you! 🏳️⚧️ You’re amazing!
The one problem, I now have to work my way through your back catalogue.
Huge thank you to @katymontgomerie.com for giving a shoutout to our letter - “Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community” - on the latest @mediastormpod.bsky.social podcast with @mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social 🩷
Please sign our letter here
✍🏼 change.org/NION_Women
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.
This episode, we ask: why?
🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com
🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social
This week on News Watch: did you know
👉 Johnny Depp is a ‘victim of Me Too’?
👉 Iran might have a ‘nuclear bomb within a month’?
👉 Palestine Action are ‘terrorists’?
👀
We pick apart all these unhinged headlines and tired old narratives on this week’s Media Storm episode ⬇️
I cannot recommend the Media Storm podcast more highly.
@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social are the perfect antidote to many of the deficiencies of UK 'journalism'
Want to get your head around the headlines?
Delve deeper with Media Storm’s News Watch:
➡️ LA protests: the press are being illegally targeted, but headlines aren’t reflecting this
➡️ Freedom Flotilla: where did the ‘selfie-yacht’ narrative start?
➡️ All sides of assisted dying
This proposal by the BBC is explicitly anti-democratic. As @natashadevon.bsky.social and others have pointed out, more women are moving to the Green party than are men going to Reform - yet the national broadcaster is falling over itself to pander to the extreme right. Why?
